9374
NOTE TO N. P. GORBUNOV,
October 26 [1921]

Comrade Gorbunov! What is the matter? Why the procrastination? Read this and tell me today itself¹.

Lenin.

¹ The matter concerns a complaint by A. A. Belyakov about procrastination regarding the creation of an "Extraordinary Commission of the Council of Labor and Defense [STO] on the utilization and accounting of scrap metal." According to A. A. Belyakov's opinion, the Commission would be able to quickly gather and account for enormous reserves of metal scrap and raw materials, supply them to factories and receive finished goods from them for the countryside. This proposal, supported by the Commission for the Utilization of the STO, is being obstructed, is not being carried out in practice, while in the meantime scrap and raw materials are being plundered, frenzied speculation around them has already begun, and the state is suffering enormous losses.

9429
ORDER ON CONVENING AN ADVISORY COLLEGIUM AT "EKONOMICHESKAYA ZHIZN'" [ECONOMIC LIFE]*.

To the Supreme Council of the National Economy [VSNKH], People's Commissariat of Food Supply, People's Commissariat of Railways, People's Commissariat of Agriculture, People's Commissariat of Foreign Trade.

[November 2, 1921]

According to the statement of the responsible editor of "Economic Life," comrade Krumin, the departments have thus far not put forward responsible representatives to the advisory collegium at the editor of "Economic Life" (resolution of the Council of Labor and Defense of July 22, 1921, item 3).

I request that responsible persons be appointed immediately to the advisory collegium of "Economic Life" and that their names be communicated to the Administration of Affairs of the Council of Labor and Defense within the period of one week.

Chairman of the Council of Labor and Defense

*

9463
EXCHANGE OF NOTES WITH V. P. MILYUTIN*.

November 10, 1921.

NOTE FROM LENIN.

1) Who is the chairman of your Production Commission at the Supreme Council of the National Economy [VSNKH]?

2) When was he appointed?

* Printed from a typewritten copy. — Editor.